[CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

Mon Dec 3 10:47:55 UTC 2018
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 03.12.2018 um 11:14 schrieb John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Simon Matter wrote:
> 
>>> Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit :
>>>> I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were
>>>> offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies OK, so yes it was
>>>> started. The updates completed and all looked good, until the reboot.
>>> 
>>> I got a similar disaster here. I guess the lesson to be learned is that
>>> CR is nice to have on servers, but don't use it on desktops.
>> 
>> My question is what will change with the final release of 7.6? I thought
>> the CR repo usually holds all updates with the exception of
>> centos-release, or are there more updates to come? I had the impression
>> that in the past, the final release brought only cosmetic changes with the
>> centos-release being updated.
> 
> I've seen zero problems on Desktops I've installed CR on.
> 
> If CR has issues, as you say you'd expect 7.6 to have problems.  If things are
> failing with CR updates, you really want to investigate what's going on.
> 

The mentioned problem could be related to the nvidia packages ... 
such cases (transition to 7.6) were discussed on ELrepo's list.

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/

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LF